Film and Culture Flashcards

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An interest in or concern for abstract, speculative, or fantastic

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Antirealism

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Composed or myriad integrated techniques and concepts

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Cinematic language

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Subject of the artwork

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Content

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Most common editing technique designed to hide the instantaneous and potentially jarring shift from one camera viewpoint to another

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Cutting on action

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Strive for objective, observed veracity, but does not mean they don’t tell stories

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Documentary film

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Move toward a subject, the subject grows in the frame, gaining significance

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Dolly in

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Joining together of discrete shots

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Editing

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Film about unfamiliar, unorthodox, or obscure subject matter and are ordinarily made by independent filmmaker, not studios, often with innovative techniques that call attention to question and even challenge their own artifice

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Experimental cinema

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Everything that a movie presents on its surface

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Explicit meaning

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10
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Last shot of the screen gradually grows darker

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Fade out

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The means by which the subject is expressed and experienced

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Form

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The means by which a subject is expressed, analytical approach primarily concerned with film form

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Formal analysis

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Still image is shown on screen for a period of time

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Freeze Frame

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Categorization of narrative films by the stories they tell and the ways they tell them

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Genre

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an association, connection, or inference that a viewer makes on the basis of the given meaning conveyed

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Implicit meaning

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documentary film that seeks to educate viewers about common interests, rather than persuading them with particular ideas

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Instructional film

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Viewers shared experience of literally looking up at powerful figures

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Low-angle shot

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process by which an agent, structure, or other formal element, whether human or technological, transfers something from one place to another

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Mediation

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Structured into acts that establish, develop, and resolve character conflict

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Narrative

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the process by which the human brain retains an image for a fraction of a second longer than an eye records it.

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Persistence of vision

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illusion of movement created by an event that succeed each other rapidly ( two lights are flickering side by side alternately but it appears as though one light is going side to side.)

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Phi phenomenon

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an interest in or concern for the actual or real, a tendency to view or represent things as they really are

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Realism

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an unbroken span of action captured by an uninterrupted run of a motion- picture camera

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Shot

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A shared public idea, such as a metaphor, an adage, a myth, or a familiar conflict or personality type

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Theme

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Whether realistic, antirealist, or a combination of the two, it can achieve a convincing appearance of truth

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Verisimilitude